Three Good Resources for Helping Students Learn About and Write Poetry

In my previous post I shared Haiku Deck's list of ideas for teaching poetry with the Haiku Deck web and iPad apps. If Haiku Deck isn...

How to Privately Share Media from Your iPad via Google Drive

I recently had someone ask me how her students could privately share videos they made on their iPads. My suggestion was to use the Google Dr...

Things to Think About - A Free iPad App Built By Students for Students

Things to Think About is a free iPad app that offers 100 writing prompts created by students for students. The prompts were created by 2nd ...

Easily Sign Documents In Your Browser or On Your Tablet

The other day I received an email from a reader who was looking for a way to digitally sign documents. My suggestion was to try Hello Sign. ...

ThingLink Launches a Free iPad App

Cross posted from iPad Apps for School .  ThingLink is one of my favorite tools that I've reviewed on Free Technology for Teachers . Th...

5 Great Activities from Read Write Think

If you're an elementary school teacher who has not bookmarked Read Write Think, you absolutely should do that today. Read Write Think pr...

Develop Math Skills With Beluga Learning for iPads

Beluga Learning is a free iPad app that my friend Rod Berger recommended to me a couple of weeks ago. Beluga Learning provides a game based...

WWF Together - A Beautiful iPad App About Endangered Animals

WWF Together is a wonderful, free iPad app that I have featured on iPad Apps for School in the past. I installed the update for it over th...

Why Visuals Matter In Storytelling

I've had the pleasure of seeing Ken Shelton present on a number of occasions. Each time he has had superbly designed slidedecks. I'...

76 Examples of Using Haiku Deck in School

Last weekend Kristen Swanson shared some ideas for using Haiku Deck to promote visual literacy . This morning I noticed that the Haiku Deck ...

Taking the Penultimate Notes

A couple of weeks ago Evernote released Penultimate as a free iPad app . Since then it has become my favorite app for taking notes and sket...